Stravinsky: Octet & L’Histoire du Soldat

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Stravinsky's music requires very exact balance, something scrupulously caught in these performances and the efficient recordings. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2013 More…

Release Date: 18th Mar 2013
Catalogue No: AV2277
Label: Avie
Length: 63 minutes

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Stravinsky: Octet for Wind Instruments

Work length15:47

$3.50

$4.90

Eastman Wind Ensemble
Eastman Virtuosi
Mark Scatterday

I. Sinfonia

Track length4:04

$1.00

$1.40

II. Tema con Variazioni

Track length8:01

$1.50

$2.10

III. Finale

Track length3:42

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$1.40

Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale) - Part I

Work length16:55

$10.00

$14.00

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Jan Opalach
Eastman Virtuosi
Mark Scatterday

The Soldier's March

Track length1:52

$1.00

$1.40

Narration

Track length0:49

$1.00

$1.40

Music to Scene I

Track length2:47

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$1.40

Narration

Track length3:33

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$1.40

Music to Scene II

Track length2:40

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$1.40

Narration

Track length1:18

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$1.40

Music to Scene IIIa

Track length0:54

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$1.40

Narration

Track length1:55

$1.00

$1.40

Music to Scene IIIb

Track length0:53

$1.00

$1.40

Narration

Track length0:14

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$1.40

Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale) - Part II

Work length30:58

$15.00

$21.00

Eastman Wind Ensemble, Jan Opalach
Eastman Virtuosi
Mark Scatterday

The Soldier's March

Track length0:52

$1.00

$1.40

Narration

Track length0:49

$1.00

$1.40

The Royal March

Track length2:42

$1.00

$1.40

Narration

Track length1:10

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$1.40

The Little Concert

Track length3:13

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$1.40

Narration

Track length3:13

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$1.40

Three Dances. Tango, Waltz, Ragtime

Track length6:58

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$1.40

Narration

Track length0:38

$1.00

$1.40

The Devil's Dance

Track length1:28

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$1.40

Narration

Track length0:15

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$1.40

The Little Chorale

Track length0:44

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$1.40

The Devil's Song

Track length0:43

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$1.40

Great Chorale

Track length4:08

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$1.40

Narration

Track length1:41

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$1.40

Triumphal March of the Devil

Track length2:24

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$1.40

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Under the baton of conductor Mark Scatterday, the Eastman Wind Ensemble celebrates its 60th anniversary with its first recording for Avie, a superb reading of Stravinsky's Octet, while the Eastman Virtuosi, with narrator Jan Opalach, deliver a devilish rendition of L'Histoire du Soldat.

Harking back to a golden era in recording, when the ensembles of the Eastman School of Music under the baton of the legendary Frederick Fennell made dozens of pioneering recordings for Mercury Living Presence, the Eastman Wind Ensemble celebrates its 60th anniversary with its first recording for AVIE Records featuring two seminal works by Stravinsky. The composer's music figured early on in the EWE's history - his Symphonies for Wind Instruments was performed in 1951 on a programme conducted by Frederick Fennell that led to the establishment of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. And in 1966, at the age of 83, Stravinsky made his one and only visit to the Eastman School of Music, overseeing performances of several of his works.

Under Mark Scatterday, who continues in the prestigious lineage as only the fourth conductor in the EWE's history, the superior student ensemble performs Stravinsky's Octet, while Eastman Virtuosi, made up of the Eastman School's renowned faculty members, turn in a devilishly fine rendition of A Soldier's Tale. Jan Opalach delivers an exceptionally nuanced narration as well as portraying the folk tale's two protagonists, Joseph the solider and the Devil.

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April 2013

Stravinsky's music requires very exact balance, something scrupulously caught in these performances and the efficient recordings.

17th March 2013

Avie has recorded them in an intimate, dryish space at the Eastman School of Music in New York, recalling the atmosphere on the old Robert Craft Stravinsky discs, but the playing is more sharply focused than one recalls from that era.

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